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The International Studies Department is excited to announce that two International Studies students, Jean Francois Guilmeus (BA Fall 2017) and Haozhe Li (current INTL senior), have been accepted into graduate programs at Cambridge!

Congratulations to you both!

Above: Haozhe Li (left) and Jean

Graciela has been a Staff Scientist at Environmental Law Alliance Worldwide (ELAW) since 2013. In her current role, Meche provides on-site support for air, water, and soil quality analysis, and expert opinion on environmental impact assessments (EIAs) and environmental health. Her work with ELAW ...

Suteera is currently a research director at a research and management consulting firm ICF in the Washington DC area. For various clients including the U.S. Department of Labor, USAID, UNOPS, and Facebook Suteera has been planning and allocating resources for in-country research and evaluation ...

Alexis Busso, in her own words:
“After graduating from the International Studies program (BA), I traveled to Colombia to teach English for the spring term. I worked at a private British School teaching to students of varying ages and backgrounds. During my stay there, I made lasting ...

An update from Gwen Cummings, in her own words: “I’m busy completing my first year of service as a Community HIV Outreach Volunteer with the Peace Corps. I’m loving life in my village in Mpumalanga, South Africa, and appreciating seeing how development works on the micro level. I’m ...

Karin Long, in her own words: “After I graduated, I spent a few years teaching English to elementary and middle school aged kids in Thailand. I taught in Phatthalung, a province near the Thai-Malaysian border. It was a very rural area and it was difficult, but inspiring work! I got married ...

Betsy Katz, in her own words:
“I graduated with my BA in International Studies with focuses on International Relations and Diplomacy, Global Health and Development and Latin America in Spring 2014. After UO I worked in a community health clinic (FQHC) in Portland, OR working to engage ...

Did you graduate this year? If so, we’d love to hear from you!
Please send us anything you’d like to know and/or share. It can be about anything! Graduate school? Profession? Personal life? Travels? Peace Corps? NGO work? Anything you would like people to know about your experience with ...

After graduating from the International Studies MA program in 2011, Lindsey Foltz worked for four years at the City of Eugene as an Equity and Human Rights Analyst and a Community Programs Analyst which included Fair Housing work. She is now a first year PhD student at the UO exploring ...

An article by International Studies MA student, Brenda Garcia Millan, is featured in the latest edition of CLLAS Notes (Center for Latino/a & Latin American Studies). “Contemporary Displacement Patterns and Responses: Haitians at the U.S.-Mexico Border” is a reflection on Garcia ...